Seeing in Black and White: Re: Re: Beautiful Photography

» Carol Wallace - Re: Re: Beautiful Photography

In response to message posted by transNdan:
Jo, those look to me a bit like light reflections that I sometimes got from my scanner. Rescanning after moving the photo slightly sometimes helped. It often hapened when my scanner lamp was going bad.

Dan - what you say here about black and white revealing what color can often conceal is exactly why I like to convert garden photos to black and white. Color often masks or makes design flaws difficult to spot. Look at the real garden and you know something is wrong and yet you can't pinpoint it. Take a photo and you have the same problem - because if the colors work you still have something pleasing. But convert it to black and white and the problems with form and texture suddenly become apparent. Then I can go to the real garden and solve the problem - and take a better picture of the better garden when I am done.

-- posted by Carol Wallace